Using this unique BMW from the GJ area (GJ BMW), many studies have been recently performed in the various fields of industry, like functional food, cosmetics, and medicine.
Over the last decades, learning from the self-assembly of molecular building blocks in nature and mimicking especially the architecture of biomembranes by model membrane systems have lead to various applications such as composite materials synthesis, novel optics and catalysts, as well as to the development of novel functional food, cosmetics, and drug nanoparticulate carriers [2] [7].
Raspberry pomace extracts may be promising ingredients for functional foods, nutraceuticals, cosmetics and other applications.
This makes resveratrol a promising compound for applications as dietary supplement, functional food ingredient, cosmetics ingredient, and even as a therapeutic.
The addition of bovine LF to infant formula and also to other functional products and cosmetics has increased during the last decades.
Synthesis of 1,2-propanediol (1,2-PDO) from glycerol via catalytic hydrogenolysis has attracted much attention, which finds use in the manufacture of unsaturated polyester resins, functional fluids, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, paints, and foods [10, 11].
Meanwhile, NM are widely used as UV-filters in sunscreens and recent developments point to a much wider functional spectrum in cosmetics, including moisturising cremes, so-called anti-ageing products, preservatives and as carrier systems for macromolecules such as collagen.
Thus cosmetic dermatology, recognizing the new realities of skin care products, has to emphasize the functional aspects of cosmetics through an understanding of their efficacy and safety in promoting good health.
It is inferred that GBL lipids with different concentrations of polyprenols could play different roles in the research and development of cosmetics and functional food.
While the category, classified as nutricosmetics and "functional foods" by the cosmetics industry, has been hurt by the recession, demand is still expected to increase by about 6 percent a year to $8.5 billion by 2015, according to Freedonia Group, a market research company.
